Dr.-Ing. Salman Ghaffar 

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Dr.-Ing. Salman Ghaffar
Hydrological and water quality modeler studying lakes, groundwater, and drinking water reservoirs

Department Lake Research
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Brückstr. 3a
39114 Magdeburg, Germany

ph. +49 (0) 341 6025 1949
salman.ghaffar@ufz.de


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Dr.-Ing. Salman Ghaffar

Research interests

  • Impact of declining groundwater table on forest landuse
  • Eutrophication processes and their effects on drinking water quality
  • Spatial and temporal validation of hydrological and water quality models
  • Combined impact of climate and land use change on catchment hydrology

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I am open to collaborating with scientists from diverse disciplines.
Students seeking internships or looking for topics for their bachelor’s or master’s theses are welcome to get in touch to discuss potential projects and opportunities to contribute to ongoing research.

 Curriculum Vitae

April 2026 –
Current 		Postdoc position at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Magdeburg (DE). Project: “ Preparation of measures to stabilize the groundwater level, with the aim of the long-term preservation of the hardwood floodplain forest in the Kreuzhorst”.
October 2016 –
December 2023 		PhD position at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig (DE), in collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Magdeburg (DE). Project: Testing the capability of semi-distributed and fully distributed hydrological and water quality models in central Germany catchments.
November 2014 –
May 2016 		Research Engineer, Department of Structures & Environmental Engineering, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad (Pakistan).
September 2012 –
August 2014 		MSc (Hons.) Agricultural Engineering, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad (Pakistan).
September 2008 –
August 2012 		BSc (Hons.) Agricultural Engineering, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad (Pakistan).

Publications

Chen, M., Jomaa, S., Lausch, A., Beudert, B., Ghaffar, S., Jia, W., & Rode, M. (2024). Impact of forest dieback on hydrology and nitrogen export using a new dynamic water quality model. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037341

Ghaffar, S., Zhou, X., Jomaa, S., Yang, X., Meon, G., & Rode, M. (2024). Toward a data-effective calibration of a fully distributed catchment water quality model. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036527

X. Kong, S. Ghaffar, M. Determann, K. Friese, S. Jomaa, C. Mi, T. Shatwell, K. Rinke, M Rode (2022). Reservoir water quality deterioration due to deforestation emphasizes the indirect effects of global change. Water Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118721

S. Ghaffar, S. Jomaa, G. Meon, M. Rode. (2021). Spatial validation of a semi-distributed hydrological nutrient transport model. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125818

S. Ghaffar, Nasir, A., Ali, M.A., & Farid, M.U. (2015). Physico-thermal characterization of biomass materials of different nature of briquettes. Journal of Agricultural Research.